This site is designed for teachers and students with interests in exploring and learning about folklife and community-based educational activities. Teachers and students with interests in exploring and learning about folklife and community-based educational activities will find a wide range of publications, links to online resources, and other materials to suit their project needs here.

A list of resources curated by the American Folklore Society

Folk Arts in Education: A Resource Handbook II examines the state of folklife and folk arts in education projects around the U.S. with sample curricula from over 50 exemplary programs for youth in educational settings in K-12 schools, youth-serving organizations arts and humanities councils, museums, and cultural heritage and folk arts nonprofit organizations. Folklife programs in schools and after-school programs bring young people in touch with their communities, their ethnic identities, the authentic cultural expressions of their own families and others through direct participation and ethnographic methods using photography, video, radio, audio recordings, exhibitions, festival, and residencies with tradition-bearers. A web resources section links educators to folk arts programs nationwide.

Folkstreams is a non-profit dedicated to finding, preserving, contextualizing, and showcasing documentary films on American traditional cultures.

Local Learning began as the National Task Force for Folk Arts in Education during a 1993 national roundtable at the National Endowment for the Arts. Today, we are a loose network of hundreds of people interested in engaging young people with their own traditional culture and with the local culture and folklore of their families, regions, and the larger world. We are folklorists, folk artists, and educators of many stripes. We work in public agencies, nonprofit organizations, schools, universities, museums, community centers, libraries, and out-of-school education settings.

The Louisiana Voices Folklife in Education Project provides educators with tools for teaching Louisiana folklife -- including extensive teaching materials, training, research strategies, student activities, concepts, and content -- via the Louisiana Voices Educator's Guide.

A fifty-page guide that includes grade level expectations, Missouri “Show-Me” educational standards, objectives, outcomes, lesson plans, definitions, student-ready handouts, photographs, and links to numerous online and printed resources. The Folklore & Education section of the American Folklore Society awarded the Dorothy Howard Prize for the guide to MFAP and author Susan Eleuterio in 2011.

The content of the listserv tends towards call for papers for European folklore and ethnology-related journals and conferences/symposia.

A listserv used by public folklorists and other academic scholars across the United States.

Produced by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Spanish language version of the guide available.

Based at the University of Kentucky

Oral History in the Digital Age (OHDA) is a product of an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership project and a collaboration among the Michigan State University Museum; Michigan State University Digital Humanities Center, Matrix; the American Folklife Center (AFC/LOC), the Library of Congress; the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH); the American Folklore Society (AFS); the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries; and the Oral History Association.

The Veterans History Project of the American Folklife Center collects, preserves, and makes accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war.

The AFS Ethnographic Thesaurus is a searchable online vocabulary that can be used to improve access to information about folklore, ethnomusicology, cultural anthropology, and related fields. The Thesaurus was developed in cooperation with the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress.

Written for a popular audience, this growing site offers biographical, topical, geographic, and thematic essays with bibliographies of sources and suggested readings.

Developed by members of the Public Programs Section of the American Folklore Society with Susan Eleuterio and Meghan McGrath.

A database created by the National Folklore Archives Initiative (NFAI), which is supported by funding from the Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program of the NEH's Division of Preservation and Access. NFAI is an American Folklore Society-coordinated effort to document and provide access to information about folklore archival collections held by folklore programs at academic institutions, community-based cultural and ethnic organizations, non-profit organizations, and state government-based arts and cultural agencies in the United States.

Folkstreams is a non-profit dedicated to finding, preserving, contextualizing, and showcasing documentary films on American traditional cultures.

The Handbook of Texas is a comprehensive encyclopedia of Texas geography, history, and historical persons published by the Texas State Historical Association.

The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook is co-sponsored by the American Association for State and Local History and the National Council on Public History.

Pass the Word is a discovery tool for oral history collections throughout the State of Kentucky. With over 100 archives participating by contributing their collections information, new content continues to be added regularly. Check back frequently for new discoveries.

A project of the Mississippi Arts Commission, Mississippi Folklife re-imagines its earlier print publication established in 1927 by the Mississippi Folklore Society, as a digital journal featuring original writing and documentary work focused on modern and present-day folklife and cultural heritage throughout the state, with new articles, interviews, photo essays, and films anchored by three core areas: Music, Custom, and Visual Arts.

Open Folklore, a partnership of the American Folklore Society and the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries, is a scholarly communications effort to make a greater number and variety of useful resources available to folklorists.

StoryCorps’ mission is to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world.

Guide to researching the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Classification of Folk Tales (ATU) and the Stith Thompson Motif-Index of Folk Literature.